News - Google Street View coming to iOS6... sort of

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Safari web-support for Street view believed to be available in two weeks.

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If I was Google I would just let Apple sort out their own mess. Apple are blatently trying to cut their ties with other companies, such as their reliance on Samsung hardware so they can sue them to death. Google should just hold out and let Apple struggle with their app instead of offering their own app... unless of course they are going to charge a large premium for it, which I doubt Apple would let them do.

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Originally Posted by KrisWragg

If I was Google I would just let Apple sort out their own mess. Apple are blatently trying to cut their ties with other companies, such as their reliance on Samsung hardware so they can sue them to death. Google should just hold out and let Apple struggle with their app instead of offering their own app... unless of course they are going to charge a large premium for it, which I doubt Apple would let them do.

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I have to say to respectfully disagree. The way much of the world is going seems to be about demonstrating a willingness to work with others, on many different scales.
In the IT tech world, we have seem time and time again monopolies commissions give companies a tough time for trying to do things their own way, so being willing to work with rivals mitigates against this, as well as potentially being good for customers (although not always)

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Originally Posted by KrisWragg

If I was Google I would just let Apple sort out their own mess. Apple are blatently trying to cut their ties with other companies, such as their reliance on Samsung hardware so they can sue them to death. Google should just hold out and let Apple struggle with their app instead of offering their own app... unless of course they are going to charge a large premium for it, which I doubt Apple would let them do.

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No no no.

Google should seek to provide cross-platform web apps that work on any device and undermine vendor lock-ins and walled gardens, this will drive more traffic to their ad streams and create a public good-will - "thank f**k for Google" they'll all say "Apple screwed me, Google rescued me, perhaps I'll jump ship from iTat next time I buy now I don't rely on native apps... perhaps I'll buy an Android and get more Googley goodness"

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From Google's point-of-view, Android offers a user-base and thus advertising profit, almost three times that of the Apple mobile community.

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I find this article a little contradictory. As is said, Google makes its money from advertisements and search, meaning that it's all about the number of users, not where they connect from. Hence it IS sensible for Google to be working on an iOS app.

Furthermore, Android may have three times the user base of iOS, but I promise you that the number of users who actually make heavy use of Maps and other online applications is much closer to even.

Apple maps is poor IMO so happy to see this happen